5th grade Objective:Given internet resources, the learner will characterize the climate of the great depression by writing down their infernces from a picture/song lyrics and prove/disprove infernces by facts from web resources. Unit Objective:TLW identify and analyze art, music and literature and make connections between influence of the time period and the artform. TEK:
Visual Discovery(History Alive Technique)- Analyze a picture using Stixy (www.stixy.com)
1. (Yellow)What do you see? (students) I see
2. (Green)How do you think the people in the picture feel? (student) I think because I see
3. (Blue)What do you think is happening in the picture? (student) I think because I see
4. (Pink)When do you think this picture was taken? (student) I think because I see
Ask: How would you use the internet to validate your information/inferences from your discovery?
Students will go to other group's stixy and use internet searches to prove or disprove inferences.Using advanced searches in google, the students will find interviews of people who lived during the Great Depression and write down their findings.
(Use R.E.A.L. technique in searching)
Closure: Students will read lyrics of "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?" Student's Response: What connection can you make bewtween the picture in stixy and the song lyrics/meaning?
Objective:Given internet resources, the learner will characterize the climate of the great depression by writing down their infernces from a picture/song lyrics and prove/disprove infernces by facts from web resources.
Unit Objective:TLW identify and analyze art, music and literature and make connections between influence of the time period and the artform.
TEK:
Resources/Materials:
netbook/internet acccess (www.stixy.com) (www.animoto.com)
(http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en)
Anticipatory SET: View an Animoto-collection of photographs from the Great Depression (under construction).
Input/Guided Practice- Students will work in groups to analyze picture/visual discovery
Sample:
Visual Discovery(History Alive Technique)- Analyze a picture using Stixy (www.stixy.com)
1. (Yellow)What do you see? (students) I see
2. (Green)How do you think the people in the picture feel? (student) I think because I see
3. (Blue)What do you think is happening in the picture? (student) I think because I see
4. (Pink)When do you think this picture was taken? (student) I think because I see
Ask: How would you use the internet to validate your information/inferences from your discovery?
Students will go to other group's stixy and use internet searches to prove or disprove inferences.Using advanced searches in google, the students will find interviews of people who lived during the Great Depression and write down their findings.
(Use R.E.A.L. technique in searching)
Closure: Students will read lyrics of "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?" Student's Response: What connection can you make bewtween the picture in stixy and the song lyrics/meaning?
(lead into the next day's lesson)